Numismatica Ars Classica
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Terina.
Nomos circa 420-400, AR 7.74 g. TEPINAION Head of the nymph Terina l., hair bound with sphendone; behind neck, Π. Rev. Nike seated l. on cippus, wearing kiton and himation; a fluttering bird perched on wreath held in extended r. hand and resting l. hand on cippus; in lower field r., Π. Regling 63. SNG Copenhagen 2010 (these dies). Holloway-Jenkins 61 (these dies). Historia Numorum Italy 2616.
Wonderful old cabinet tone and about extremely fine
Ex Stack's 10 June 1970, Knoblock, 681; Leu 71, 1997, 44 and Morton & Eden 9 June 2011, 199 sales.
Originally a colony of Croton, Terina was founded late in the 6th Century B.C. on a site that has not certainly been identified, but which likely is beneath the modern city of Sant'Eufemia Vetere on the south-western coast of the Italian peninsula. It seems to have remained under the influence of its mother city until 365 B.C., when it came under the dominion of the Lucanians, who nine years later were replaced by the Bruttians. Except for a brief intervention by Alexander the Molossian in about 330/325 B.C., Terina remained under the Bruttian yoke until 203 B.C., when it was razed by the army of Hannibal. If coinage may be taken as a yardstick for civic pride, the spirit of this city remained intact despite its history of continual subjugation to stronger peoples. Its 'independent' silver coinage spans more than 150 years, and with few exceptions its silver coins feature on the obverse a female head, and on the reverse a female figure (usually winged) standing, seated or taking flight.
Nomos circa 420-400, AR 7.74 g. TEPINAION Head of the nymph Terina l., hair bound with sphendone; behind neck, Π. Rev. Nike seated l. on cippus, wearing kiton and himation; a fluttering bird perched on wreath held in extended r. hand and resting l. hand on cippus; in lower field r., Π. Regling 63. SNG Copenhagen 2010 (these dies). Holloway-Jenkins 61 (these dies). Historia Numorum Italy 2616.
Wonderful old cabinet tone and about extremely fine
Ex Stack's 10 June 1970, Knoblock, 681; Leu 71, 1997, 44 and Morton & Eden 9 June 2011, 199 sales.
Originally a colony of Croton, Terina was founded late in the 6th Century B.C. on a site that has not certainly been identified, but which likely is beneath the modern city of Sant'Eufemia Vetere on the south-western coast of the Italian peninsula. It seems to have remained under the influence of its mother city until 365 B.C., when it came under the dominion of the Lucanians, who nine years later were replaced by the Bruttians. Except for a brief intervention by Alexander the Molossian in about 330/325 B.C., Terina remained under the Bruttian yoke until 203 B.C., when it was razed by the army of Hannibal. If coinage may be taken as a yardstick for civic pride, the spirit of this city remained intact despite its history of continual subjugation to stronger peoples. Its 'independent' silver coinage spans more than 150 years, and with few exceptions its silver coins feature on the obverse a female head, and on the reverse a female figure (usually winged) standing, seated or taking flight.